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...science exhibit for children eight to twelve years old (even the low-slung staircases are built to discourage adults) is one of the fair's best shows. Here kids can poke their arms into plastic sleeves to see how heavy a grapefruit is on Mars, spin on a platform by tilting a giant gyroscope, make wave patterns in water tanks, and watch a 40,000-member ant colony go busily about its cutaway civic activities...
...mine," said Biff half-aloud. But since he was also about to be trampled by the hordes of students leaving Sever, he resignedly slung the book bag over his shoulder and walked slowly across the Yard toward Weld Hall. Deep in thought, he nearly collided with a tall student in blue jeans...
...Power Look. The Avanti, says Designer Loewy, "looks power." Its sloping, grill-less hood bears only single, recessed headlights, a single bar bumper, and a low-slung air scoop. Its high, rounded rump tucks under at the bottom like that of a rabbit in full flight and the waist of the car is slightly indented in Coke-bottle fashion-a design feature previously used only on supersonic jet fighters. Inside, reflecting Egbert's love of flying, the Avanti resembles a plush airplane with instruments set in neat, easy-to-reach groups, has two bucket seats in front...
...farm supply center of 550 people in northern Colorado. His father, a lumberman, was town mayor-and a devoted Republican. Byron was valedictorian of his five-member high school class, went to the University of Colorado in nearby Boulder, where he waited table at the Phi Gamma Delta house, slung hash in a sorority, made Phi Beta Kappa-and became a Democrat. These were Depression years, and White was impressed by Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. "It seemed to me," he recalls, "that the Democrats had the more forward-looking programs." Hall of Fame...
...only 60% of it is made in Japan. To provide this much Japanese merchandise, Seibu's buyers had to organize a Japanese children's clothing industry almost from scratch (Japanese children wear school uniforms) and to persuade furniture makers to raise Japan's small, low-slung dining tables to coffee-table height...